22ft of shark makes for a long day, but the company was amazing!

It's the rounder, more "derpy" face that gives it away (that's a technical term)... also note it actually looks like a rock 🤷🏼‍♀️ #science
📷 J. Nielsen

Still in the process of finding everyone here, I missed @bluedogfishing.bsky.social
@drmjwitt.bsky.social and
@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social

There's more cooperative #shark science to come in 2025, stay tuned! Thanks to our partners
@anglingtrust.bsky.social
@thembauk.bsky.social
@bd-stew.bsky.social
Shark Hub UK
Witt Lab at U of Exeter
and the recreational anglers who make this work happen!

Our SPOT tagged shark, Tasha, has also been making moves! Her tag expires after 180 days (July-early January), so hopefully she'll ping again soon. The great thing about M tags is they never expire, so we hope to receive recapture reports for these sharks for many years into the future.

We're wrapping up Year 1 of our UK Blue Shark Tagging Project (www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...), and here are some highlights!
-2200 M tags deployed, all by recreational anglers
-1750 tag cards returned
-17 recaptures reported to date, maps below.
-Longest distance: 617 nm in 21 days!

Thanks @ma-sharks.bsky.social for the flashback, this was an incredible necropsy made possible by your dedication to securing these fish when they wash ashore.

This female Porbeagle had 4 developing embryos. They are nourished by feeding on unfertilized eggs. The term for this strategy is Oophagy, meaning 'egg eating'.
You can see their yolk stomachs and some of the eggs they were feeding on in these photos. 🦈

No doubt.

Yes! And clearly I check in here often... must improve!

My first #Bluesky post is a good one! Happy to announce the publication of "Morphometric Conversions for 33 Shark Species from the Western North Atlantic Ocean", a culmination of thousands of #shark measurements collected over 50+ years! OA here: spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...